La Libre Parole - Édouard Drumont - five issues

La Libre Parole - Édouard Drumont - five issues

Five issues of venomous antisemitic newspaper 'La Libre Parole' edited by antisemitic agitator journalist Édouard Drumont, founder of the Antisemitic League in France. Different months in the year 1897.

On the title page of an issue dated January 2, 1897, a large antisemitic cartoon: a French couple in front of a Jewish fur seller named 'Yitzhak', addressing him by saying that the fur he is interested in selling looks good but it stinks horribly, the Jew replies: "You can buy it with complete confidence, The stinky smell is from me, not the fur." on the title page of the issue dated July 24, 1897 a painting depicting Édouard Drumont in front of an enthusiastic and cheering crowd and the caption: "More than 4,000 patriots cheer for Edward Dreimon with the shouts of 'Jews down, France to the French'. In the other issues, cartoons mocking the greedy Jews, cartoons mocking the Jews of Constantine (Algeria ruled at the time by the French), and more.

The newspaper "La Libre Parole" ("The Free Word") was published as a weekly by the journalist Édouard Drumont (1844-1917). On the title page of each issue is a large antisemitic cartoon printed in color. At the top of each issue appeared the slogan: "La France aux Français" - 'France for the French'. On the front pages are antisemitic articles condemning the Jews, and the danger that threatens France from their presence.

Drumont's newspaper was the first to publish the arrest of Alfred Dreyfus on November 1, 1894 - the title page of the paper featured the news of Dreyfus' arrest. Drumont was proud of the contribution of his articles and newspaper to the prevention of what he called the "fall of France into the hands of the Jews." The obsessive venom of Drumont's articles in the days of the Dreyfus affair provoked a marked increase in the sales of his newspaper, which this time reached a circulation of one hundred thousand copies. Drumont became popular at the time by his inciting messages against the Jews and capitalism, and by his militant and exciting speech to the masses. Boasted that he had become a kind of "pope of anti-Semitism." His views also resonated beyond the borders of France, and a few decades later influenced the policies of the Vichy regime and its collaborators with the Nazis in France during World War II.

5 Complete sheets, 38 cm. Very good condition.